Indiscernible Counterparts - The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama (Paperback, New edition)

While the plays of classical France achieve an unprecedented scenic perfection, what ultimately distinguishes classical drama is its unique awareness of its literary properties: the canny excavation of its resources as the site, instrument, and product of a concerted act of writing. But this self-conscious literariness also bears witness to the era's corollary awareness of the predicament in which even great art works stand as the occasion and counterpart of a critical, often ironic act of reading. In ""inventing,"" that is, creating and discovering, the text as a vehicle of self-determining authorship, the ""grands classiques"" simultaneously invent the key critical insights shaping the methods we ourselves bring to bear on the poetic monuments they have left us. The literary monument thereby becomes its own ""indiscernible counterpart,"" deliberately engaging what, in theory, ought to escape it - the deconstructive ""other"" only another contrives to see.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
Release date:	February 2003
First published:	February 2003
Authors:	Christopher Braider
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	387
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8078-9279-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
LSN:	0-8078-9279-3
Barcode:	9780807892794

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